Embrace Community.
Experience Healing.
Being Together > Having it Together.
Life is so sweet. And also, life is so hard.
When it’s sweet, we celebrate, and want to share it with people around us. But, when it’s hard, we tend to retreat and keep others at a distance. In pain and desperation, how many times have you attempted to self-assess, self-diagnose, and self-care your way into healing? Sometimes that feels safer than reaching out and risking vulnerability with someone who may misunderstand, misconstrue, or dismiss your SOS. Or, on the flip side, how many times have you had a friend who is hurting, and you genuinely want to help, but you second-guess, over-stress, or disqualify yourself from reaching out not knowing what to say other than, “Let me know if you need anything”.
Have we reduced life to coming together in the celebrations and pulling back in the pain?
What if it didn’t have to be one or the other? What if there’s a third way? When life is hard, what if it’s more about “being together” and less about “having it together”?
Being Together > Having it Together.
While books, podcasts, and programs are informative, impactful, and insightful they can’t show up with dinner, offer a box of kleenexes, or remind you that it won’t always be this way. But people can- and a friend in the wilderness can make all the difference. When a person’s vulnerability and need is met with gracious and effective support, they not only experience hope and help, but also healing.
Awareness informs. Community transforms.
This is why Don’t Hold Back invites you to choose to love wildly, live authentically, and lean into community.We’re about eradicating loneliness, shame, and fear through the power of connection, grace, and hope. It’s not about fixing or figuring it out, but it’s about finding a way through, TOGETHER.
Here at Don’t Hold Back- you’ll not only be equipped with powerful, practical tools that will empower you to love people well when they’re going through the worst, you’ll experience the freedom first hand being a part of a community like this. And our hope is, you’ll find not only help and hope, but your own healing as well.
We would be so honored to support YOU, so you can, in turn, better support YOUR PEOPLE.
“Whitney masterfully invites us to greater living, deeper loving, and higher looking. Her tenacity for uprightness merged with her story-driven teaching style, makes the invitation to love wildly as equally tangible as it is contagious. In just one session, I received a toolbox full of practical steps to make supernatural moves in my life.”
- Kelly Carlson, Founder & CEO of Project Lightwell Foundation
“Whitney is always willing to go into the hard depths with women in pain, surrounding them with extra support yet also giving them the courage to anchor onto hope.”
- Angela Mancini, Founder and Lead Facilitator of Armed and Deployed Curriculum
“Whether you have just found yourself in the valley or you are supporting someone through adversity, your journey forward will be better with Whitney in your corner.”
- Kelly Olson, Founder of The Baton Pass
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Love Wildly Part 1:
Cultivating a Community that Makes All the Difference
Love Wildly Part 1 replaces the vague ideas of “community” and “helping” with insight and practical tools to increase you capacity to care for others when you don’t have much to give. It also provides a framework to increase connectedness with others instead of pretending “everything’s fine”. You’ll leave our time with a personalized plan to initiate, cultivate, and participate in a unique community- the kind that makes all the difference- so that no one has to be alone.
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“I was inspired to process this more deeply and even reached out to a few friends during the workshop..”
“This was amazing! I wish I had these tools earlier when I started my journey walking with my friend through grief…this was beyond helpful!!”
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Love Wildly Part 2 provides a framework for how to truly love people well when they're going through the worst. You will come away from the workshop completing exercises for a few specific areas to address within your own heart and what to be mindful of as you interact with your someone who is in pain. This is truly a roadmap that guides you to truly be able to Love Wildly as you provide gracious and effective help.
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Love Wildly Part 2:
Providing Gracious and Effective Help
“I know it would help me to be loved this way, I imagine I could do the same for others...”
“I felt like this was a fire hose of really good and important information. It would be wonderful for church leaders and anyone wanting to love well.”
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Love Wildly Part 3:
Caring For Yourself While You’re Caring For Others
Love Wildly Part 3 delves into exploring the concepts of limits and loving well, resting and being resilient, and who you are versus what you do. You will leave with practical tools and insight to love well- both your neighbor AND yourself. This is a very interactive cohort with multiple opportunities to process the content with others in real time.
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“It was the perfect mix of information and application.”
“Whitney gave so many real life examples, as opposed to just keeping all the information existing in hypotheticals, and it really helped to grasp the ideas.”
Support Sessions
If you’re in a supportive role- serving as a therapist, teacher, pastor, care giver, or other helper- we want to SUPPORT YOU through our Community Curb Conversations, where we pause to plop down in the along the busy, messy road of life, take a seat, and dive right in. Gain invaluable insight, practical tools, and real-time support as you navigate the helping relationship. We’re with YOU, so that you can be with them.
Speaking
Need a passionate and engaging speaker on topics such as trauma, community, social and emotional health, (re)marriage, or (single)parenting? Book Whitney, and bring her heartfelt stories of pain and redemption to your organization.
1:1 Coaching
Are you attempting to love wildly, but things are a little messy and you seem to be in the wilderness yourself? Let us help. Connect with a Don’t Hold Back Coach and let them be your guide.
About Whitney
Whitney Mallory is an avid writer, passionate speaker, and the founder of Don’t Hold Back, a project committed to eradicating isolation in suffering by equipping people to love others well when they are going through the worst. She holds her license as a professional counselor and spent over a decade in education working with students first as an English teacher and then as a school counselor. She currently serves The Baton Pass, an organization dedicated to connecting stories and passing hope, as both the Central IL Chapter Director and Director for the Glimmers of Hope .
Whitney acknowledges that she is a work-in-progress and shows up to any space just as she is hoping that others feel safe to do the same. She is a devoted wife to her favorite person on the planet- Tyler, and together they are raising their three precious, silly, and fiercely loved children. Her favorite things include inviting new and longtime friends over for a home-cooked meal, family bike rides, laughing, and retelling wild stories about the ways Jesus shows His love for us.
